Specifications include, but are not limited to: a voice fire alarm system that will integrate with our mass notification system. The University’s networked mass notification system is designed around the use of the Simplex voice fire alarm systems to allow emergency notifications to be transmitted both inside & outside of the buildings using the fire alarm system. To be interconnected with our mass notification system, the voice fire alarm system must be able to be integrated. Johnson Controls & Tyco Simplex Grinnell merged to create Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP & they are the only manufacturer of the fire alarm system that we need to install in order to integrate it with our current mass notification system. If the Simplex fire alarm system is not installed it will not be connected to the University’s mass notification system which does not improve our notification capabilities & goes against the University’s Hazard Mitigation Plan.